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ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2016

Utilization of Facet Joint and Sacroiliac Joint Interventions in Medicare Population from 2000 to 2014: Explosive Growth Continues!

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Joshua A Hirsch, Vidyasagar Pampati, Mark V Boswell

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Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Laxmaiah ManchikantiPain Management Center of Paducah, 2831 Lone Oak Road, Paducah, Kentucky, 42003, USA. drlm@thepainmd.com.
Joshua A HirschMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Blossom Street, Gray 241B, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Vidyasagar PampatiPain Management Center of Paducah, 2831 Lone Oak Road, Paducah, Kentucky, 42003, USA.
Mark V BoswellDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, 530 S Jackson Street, Room C2A01, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA.
Pain Management Center of Paducah · USHarvard University · USUniversity of Louisville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing utilization of interventional techniques in managing chronic spinal pain, specifically facet joint interventions and sacroiliac joint injections, is a major concern of healthcare policy makers. We analyzed the patterns of utilization of facet and sacroiliac joint interventions in managing chronic spinal pain. The results showed significant increase of facet joint interventions and sacroiliac joint injections from 2000 to 2014 in Medicare FFS service beneficiaries. Overall, the Medicare population increased 35 %, whereas facet joint and sacroiliac joint interventions increased 313.3 % per 100,000 Medicare population with an annual increase of 10.7 %. While the increases were uniform from 2000 to 2014, there were some decreases noted for facet joint interventions in 2007, 2010, and 2013, whereas for sacroiliac joint injections, the decreases were noted in 2007 and 2013. The increases were for cervical and thoracic facet neurolysis at 911.5 % compared to lumbosacral facet neurolysis of 567.8 %, 362.9 % of cervical and thoracic facet joint blocks, 316.9 % of sacroiliac joints injections, and finally 227.3 % of lumbosacral facet joint blocks.

Indexed as

Back PainChronic PainHumansInjections, Intra-ArticularMedicareNeurosurgical ProceduresPain ManagementSacroiliac JointUnited StatesZygapophyseal JointChronic spinal painFacet joint interventionsPatterns of utilizationSacroiliac joint injections

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PMID27646014
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